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Drum OH mic advice

Hello all. I have limited budget so I am trying to get creative with what I have available. I started this post with all the background information but it took 20 minutes to read, so I am dialing back and will add context as needed.

I have a friend who wants to play drums on a song I am currently writing (my first ever!). I dont have a place to record them of the right gear. I will start this post just talking about the overheads as they are the part I am most in the air about.

The options I have available are either wildly different condensers (Rode NT1A [LDC] and a Shure Beta 87 [SDC]) or a pair of Audix OM6 dynamic vocal mics.

Originally I was going to put the NT1A and the Beta 87 as the OH mics since those are the only condensers I have access to. I am now rethinking that. I KNOW this isn't ideal, but I am thinking of using the Audix OM6 dynamic mics as overheads instead. This may suck as an idea, but here is my reasoning... Whatever room we record in is going to be crap. These hyper cardioid dynamics can be moved to a distance that hopefully points to all the cymbals and elements that it needs to pick up while maybe rejecting a lot of the room sound. Their freq response is 40Hz-19kHz so I may have to try things to get some of that air back. I will start a new comment for my ideas on that, if this method seems ok.

If you had to choose, which would you go with?

Thanks!

Rode NT1A and Shure Beta 87 and try to get them to match eq

Pair of Audix OM6 Hyper cardioid dynamic vocal mics and try to process them

Just leave them programmed cause both those options are trash

Save and buy the right mics (Don't pick this one, because I don't want to halt production)

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Drum OH mic advice